Stata command to calculate the area under ROC curve

If we want to evaluate the predictive ability of a logit or probit model, Kim and Skinner (2012, JAE, Measuring securities litigation risk) suggest that A better way of comparing the predictive ability of different models is to use the Receiver … Continue reading

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Stata commands to calculate skewness

Suppose we are going to calculate the skewness of 12 monthly returns. The 12 returns may be stored in a row (Figure 1) or in a column (Figure 2). This post discusses how to calculate the skewness in these two … Continue reading

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Lawsuit data from Stanford Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

The Python script in the original post has been removed as its use violates the Terms of Service of the data provider. Stanford Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse is always happy to share the data (subject to a Non-Disclosure … Continue reading

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Calculate idiosyncratic stock return volatility

I have noted two slightly different definitions of idiosyncratic stock return volatility in: Campbell, J. Y. and Taksler, G. B. (2003), Equity Volatility and Corporate Bond Yields. The Journal of Finance, 58: 2321–2350. doi:10.1046/j.1540-6261.2003.00607.x Rajgopal, S. and Venkatachalam, M. (2011), … Continue reading

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Commonly used Stata commands to deal with potential outliers

In accounting archival research, we often take it for granted that we must do something to deal with potential outliers before we run a regression. The commonly used methods are: truncate, winsorize, studentized residuals, and Cook’s distance. I discuss in … Continue reading

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Use Python to extract URLs to HTML-format SEC filings on EDGAR

[Update on 2020-06-26] Eduardo has made a significant improvement to the code. Now you can specify a starting date and download the index file during the period from that starting date to the most recent date. I expect it to … Continue reading

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Sample code for “outreg” command in Stata

outreg is a time-saving and must-have command in Stata. It will generate a ready-for-use results table like this. I’m sure you will see what a relief this can give us. outreg is not a built-in command and can be installed … Continue reading

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Use Python to download data from the DTCC’s Swap Data Repository

I helped my friend to download data from the DTCC’s Swap Data Repository. I am not familiar with the data and just use this as a programming practice. This article gives an introduction to the origin of the data: http://www.dtcc.com/news/2013/january/03/swap-data-repository-real-time The … Continue reading

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Download FR Y-9C data from WRDS

WRDS currently populates FR Y-9C data quarter by quarter in individual datasets, like BHCF200803, BHCF200806, BHCF200809 and so on. WRDS has not stacked those individual datasets to formulate a single time-series dataset like COMPUSTAT. There are two ways to overcome … Continue reading

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TAR-Style Word Template

I create a Word template that complies with The Accounting Review editorial style. My design philosophy is “simple but sufficient”. I do not like those templates that are heavy and fancy (e.g., macros everywhere). This is just version 1. It … Continue reading

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